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Navy staff plan urged to secure civilian control yet strategic brain needed
In a congressional debate on naval affairs, proponents argue for a permanent staff organization to run the Navy's military side while preserving civilian control. Critics warn against overreach but agree a long term, centralized coordinating body is essential to plan, operate, and direct the fleet and shore resources under presidential and Navy supervision.
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Systematic Employment Aims To Align Workers With Skills
In New England, employers form an employee interchange to place workers in roles suiting their talents. By studying labor markets and individual psychology, the plan seeks to shift staff to optimal fits, matching peak hiring periods in departments like candy with department store needs.
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New England
A Boston Employer Replaces Firing With Fitting Positions
A Boston retail firm uses a plan to redeploy staff rather than discharge. Employees who fail in one role are reassigned to suitable positions after expert evaluation, aiming to place each person in their proper niche for growth. A New England convention discussed labor sources and methods to improve selection training promotion transfer and efficiency.
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Boston
New England
Foreign Demand Drives U S Business Growth Through Trade Surplus
Foreign demand remains strong across Europe excluding a few nations, fueling ongoing large scale trade surpluses and boosting domestic activity for at least a year. Massive financing deals, rising silver prices, and higher wages mark a broad expansion in U S commerce and employment.
Military Roads and the Road to Unity in Congress
The Senate approves a different good roads bill than the House measure prompting a conference committee to draft a new framework. Conferees face a rare chance to align road policy with military value and national preparedness while reconciling two distinct proposals and avoiding costly partisan divergences.
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Government’s Good Roads Plan Draws Senate Debate
Senate discussion centers on a five million dollar annual appropriation for the good roads program with gradual increases to 1921. Funds would be distributed by the Secretary of Agriculture based on area, population, and rural route mileage. Critics warn against pork and urge a truly military relevant road system in cooperation with states.
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Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
United States Touts Panama Peace Role in Elections
A Panama cablegram notes U S demand for immediate disarmament of police long-range weapons to safeguard public peace. Article 136 of the Panamanian constitution and Article 1 of the 1904 treaty bind U S to maintain independence and ensure fair elections, with Belisario Porras cited as peaceful precedent.
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Panama
United States
Colon
Republic of Panama
United States of America
Belisario Porras
Mexico
Two Shipwrecks Shape the History of Mar and Kellie Earldoms
A long 1918 feature traces how two shipwrecks influenced the line of succession to the earldoms of Mar and Kellie. It details the Gordon sisters at Ardoch, the Gothenberg merchant, and the Erskine ties that produced the present Lord Mar and Kellie, noting royal decrees and court decisions that split the Mar and Kellie titles into distinct lines.
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Man walks 1,750 miles seeking start in life with burro pals
An aging wanderer Harry H Cloud travels deserts and mountains with two burros and a cart hoping to start life anew. His baby burro Mirandy sets a humorous record as ten month old, while a buyer fails to part them from their mother. A Birmingham Ages Herald quip notes a seedy statistician cannot predict his next meal.
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Harry H Cloud
Mirandy Cloud
Mirandy
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Louise Burton
Miss Burton
Mabel
Harry
Jinnie
Birmingham Age Herald
New York
San Francisco
Narrow Exchange Over Sunburst Question At Home
In a humorous domestic moment Mrs Newrich taunts a poorer neighbor asking about her sunburst last night. The neighbor replies casually that she did not see it but doubts he would eat another bite to witness it.
Owl Turns On Electric Light Scene at Board Meeting
Jabyson dispatch reports Mrs. James McLachlan, sole woman on the local board, awakened by a roosting owl tapping the lamp. Her husband, a merchant tailor, armed himself and checked the room as the owl fluttered in through an open window and set off the light. The owl, later released, caused the commotion.
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L. L. Dispatch
New York Herald
James McLachlan
Board of Education
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McLachlan
Mr. McLachlan
Dog sees women home in North Wales police story
North Wales police dog Pat works with Officer George Moss on nightly patrols. He accompanies women home from late trains and guides them to their doors then returns to duty. Pat has helped catch three hoboes two thieves and aided a roaming stranger. He was rescued after a prior auto accident and now patrols with Moss.
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North Wales
Philadelphia
Pat
George Moss
Moss
Burgess Frissell
Shearer
Angry Cow Charges Baby Near Packing Town
Mrs Barbara Stoney rode to Packing Town with two children when a furious cow charged the carriage. The mother escaped the baby and herself was knocked against a fence, bruised, as onlookers drove the animal away.
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Rom
Philadelphia Inquirer
Barbara Stoney
Packingtown
How Love Happens in May an Old Baltimore Poem
A lyrical verse from the Baltimore Sun extols May as the season of love. It paints scenes of sunlit air and dawn imagery, where youth and hope follow through dell and hollow. The speaker questions how love occurs, concluding the heart alone knows its sweet, honeyed truth.
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Wears First Shoes at 78 In Aurora Tale of Odd Funds
A Dispatch rapes a 78 year old man on a farm near Bald Mound who wore his first shoes and attended his first vaudeville show. He owns 700 acres and his fortune is pegged around 50 000. The item blends quotes from Yonkers Statesman and Kansas City Journ with mock observations on marriage and baseball wages.
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Chicago
Charles Saunders
Bald Mound
Charlie
Kansas City
All Arranged From Puck Bet on Bobby Smith Dad
A playful line from Puck bets on Bobby Smith’s dad, wagering ten cents that the father can be picked in fifteen minutes and forty seconds. The note urges keeping Saturday afternoon open for the anticipated event.
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Puck
Bobby Smith
The Confederate Alabama Battle at Cherbourg 1864
The Confederate privateer Alabama launched May 15 1862 at Birkenhead cost 250000 built by Lairds England manned mainly by British sailors faced the USS Kearsarge at Cherbourg on June 19 1864 after a two year career destroying American shipping Semmes and 41 crew died as the Alabama sank 65 of its crew were rescued by the Kearsarge or Deerhound with Britain later paying damages to the United States.
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One pitched ball wins game by Childs of Portsmouth
In a 1910 game against Marion on June 2, Manager Childs of Portsmouth Ohio pitched one ball for an inning. The lone pitch produced a triple play, earning Childs credit for a full inning’s work and a unique place in baseball history.
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Chicago Herald
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Ohio
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Childs
Cat Warned Doomed Arethusa Sinking Harbor Tale
A London Dispatch report recalls the British battle cruiser Arethusa sunk by a mine off England’s east coast last February. The ship’s mascot cat Itoila reportedly abandoned the vessel during fueling, refusing to return. Sailors deemed the act an ill omen for the doomed ship.
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Kansas City Star
Arethusa
England
London Dispatch
Itila
Arethusea
Cupid Smashes a Club in Lafayette Ind
The Albemarle Club, a bachelor organization started in 1897 with thirteen charter members, disbands as marriages shrink membership from 100 to 30. An official notice cites many members marrying and resigning per club rules, ending the group.
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Lafayette Ind
Chicago Herald
Cupid
Albemarle Club
Four Legged Chickens Stir Sayville Feat At Sun Dispatch
A Sayville correspondent reports a four legged chicken from Barred Rocks, plans to breed broods for a summer boarding house trade, and hopes expert carving will yield four broilers from a single chick. The piece notes angelic wings for rehearsal lifts and references a whimsical history of odd observations from newspapers.
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Views of capital visitors on interesting current topics
The article presents Chauncey M. Depew, an 82 year old former New York senator and longtime Republican delegate, assessing the Chicago convention. He cites Roosevelt, Root, and Hughes as pivotal NY figures likely to shape the fight, discusses potential scenarios including Roosevelt’s possible candidate dictate, and notes Port Arthur Canada’s record grain elevator and rapid dock capacity as a separate travel remark.
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Rescue dog from wreck near Keweenaw Point sinks afloat
Rescue dog from the steamer 93 R Kirby’s lifecraft was saved by Eagle Harbor coast guard while the vessel sank near Keweenaw Point Lake Superior. The bulldog, owned by Captain Girardin, escaped surf and vanished into woods after shore arrival.
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